Beef Ribs With Roasted Peppers Roumanian Style Food

THE ULTIMATE BARBECUED RIBS

Steps:

• Special equipment: Kitchen twine
• Preheat the oven to 250 degrees F. Put the ribs on a baking sheet, season with salt and pepper and drizzle with olive oil. Stick them in the oven, and let the ribs bake, low and slow for 1 1/2 hours.
• Meanwhile, make the sauce. Wrap the bacon around the middle of the thyme sprigs and tie with kitchen twine so you have a nice bundle. Heat 2 tablespoons oil in a large saucepan over medium heat. Add the thyme bundle and cook slowly for 3 to 4 minutes to render the bacon fat and give the sauce a nice smoky taste. Add the onion and garlic and cook slowly, without coloring, for 5 minutes. Add all of the rest of the sauce ingredients, give the sauce a stir, and turn the heat down to low. Cook slowly for 20 minutes to meld the flavors. Put some sauce in a separate bowl for basting, reserving the remaining sauce for serving.
• Baste the ribs with the sauce and let them continue cooking, basting twice more, for 30 more minutes. When the ribs are cooked, take them out of the oven. You can let them hang out like this until you're ready to eat.
• When ready to eat, preheat the broiler for 5 minutes and broil the ribs, basting with the sauce. They should become crisp and charred, about 5 minutes on each side. Pick the onion and garlic out of the sauce and serve with ribs.

BEEF RIBS WITH ROASTED PEPPERS (ROUMANIAN STYLE)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400°F.
• Place fresh green and red peppers on a flat pan and roast until skins are well baked and bubbling.
• Watch carefully, turn frequently, and do not allow the flesh to burn.
• Remove from oven.
• Remove skin carefully, and discard.
• Make one slice in roasted peppers for easy removal of seeds.
• Remove seeds, stem, and discard.
• Slice all peppers in strips, lengthwise and set aside.
• Reduce oven temperature to 350°F.
• In a large skillet, on stove top, heat vegetable oil and butter.
• Brown sliced onion and crushed garlic (do not allow to caramelize), remove from pan and set aside.
• Brown sliced mushrooms, remove from pan and set aside.
• Blend together, 1/2 cup flour and the cayenne pepper.
• Reserve balance of flour for later use.
• Coat the beef ribs well in the flour-blend.
• Brown beef ribs in skillet, add enough water to cover beef ribs.
• Allow to come to a rapid boil and cook for about 5 minutes.
• To a roasting pan large enough to hold all ingredients, transfer Beef Ribs, with their cooking juices, scraping off the browned beef bits from the bottom of the pan.
• Add the onion, mushroom, carrots, celery, tomatoes, and red wine.
• Mix in cilantro, bay leaf, dill, salt, black pepper.
• Add enough water to cover the ingredients.
• Cover roasting pan and cook for about one hour.
• After one hour, discard bay leaves.
• Leave the roaster, uncovered, in your oven while you prepare the sauce.
• TO PREPARE THE SAUCE: Remove about half the cooking juices from the roaster and transfer to a pot on your stove-top.
• Over a medium heat, bring these cooking juices to a boil.
• In a medium heat-proof mixing bowl, make a roux by whisking together half the sour cream and the rest of the flour, ensuring there are no flour lumps.
• Add the rest of the sour cream and blend well.
• While stirring continuously, slowly add the boiling juices to the sour cream until all of the juices have have been combined.
• Slowly add the sour cream mixture to the contents in the roasting pan while stirring to blend with juices in the roaster.
• Reduce oven temperature to 250°F, to keep food hot.
• Return roaster to oven to keep warm while you finish preparing other accompaniments.
• Do not replace cover on roasting pan.
• Serve hot with rice, or mamaliga.

HERB & PEPPER CRUSTED RIB OF BEEF

Steps:

• Heat oven to 220C/200C fan/gas 7. Mix the rock salt, peppercorns, garlic, rosemary, parsley and olive oil. Rub this mixture all over the beef rib then place in a roasting tin. Put in the oven and cook for 30 mins, then turn the oven down to 160C/140C fan/gas 3 and cook for a further 1 hr 20 mins. Remove from the oven, transfer the beef to a board, cover with tin foil and rest for 30 mins before carving.
• While the beef rests, make the gravy. Pour off all but 2 tbsp of fat from the roasting tin and reserve any juices. Fry the onions in the roasting tin over a medium heat for about 10 mins, then add the wine, stock and reserved juices. Keep cooking for a further 10 mins to reduce to a thick sauce, season well and serve alongside the roast beef.

SLOW-ROASTED BEEF RIBS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Heat oil in a large roasting pan over medium-high heat. Season the beef ribs generously with salt and pepper.
• Sear ribs in roasting pan until well browned on all sides, about 15 minutes. Remove ribs and set aside. Wipe out roasting pan, return the ribs, and cover with parchment-lined foil. Transfer ribs to oven and roast until meat is tender and falling off the bone, about 4 hours.
• When meat is cool enough to handle, cut off the bone, remove cartilage, turn the meat over, and cut into 1 1/2-inch slices. Place slices on the bone and garnish with horseradish and olives. Serve immediately with lemon wedges.

BLACK-PEPPER BEEF RIBS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 200°F with rack in middle. Stir together pepper, brown sugar, salt, and paprika. Pat ribs dry. Rub beef all over with spice mixture.
• Arrange beef in 1 layer in a large roasting pan. Bake, uncovered, until meat is tender, about 6 hours. Cut into ribs and serve immediately. Stir juice into sauce before serving.

SALT-AND-PEPPER BEEF RIBS

Steps:

• On one-half of a grill fitted with a cover, build a small charcoal fire, about the size of a loaf of commercial sandwich bread, making sure all the charcoal becomes engulfed in flame.
• Place the ribs meat-side down on a baking sheet or cutting board and remove the papery membrane from the back of the rack by inserting a small knife beneath it and levering it up to give you enough to gain purchase with a dish towel. Peel off the membrane and discard.
• Mix the salt, pepper, brown sugar, paprika and, if you choose, red-pepper flakes in a bowl, breaking up the brown sugar with a fork. Using your hands, cover the meat entirely in this rub.
• When the flames begin to die down, leaving flickering coals, place the rib racks meat-side up on the half of the grill without the burning charcoal. Do not let the flames touch the meat at any time. Add a handful of the hickory chips to the fire. Cover the grill, vent slightly and cook, adding a handful of hickory chips every 30 minutes and a bit more fuel as necessary, until the meat is crusty, soft to the touch and well browned, about two and a half hours.
• Preheat the oven to 200 degrees. Set the ribs on a rimmed baking sheet and bake for around 5 hours.
• Cut into individual portions. Serve with extra napkins and, if you choose, barbecue sauce.

PEPOSA DELL'IMPRUNETA (TUSCAN BLACK PEPPER BEEF)

Steps:

• Place meat in a large mixing bowl. Sprinkle all sides generously with 1 tablespoon kosher salt.
• Place chopped garlic and a pinch of salt in a mortar and mash with pestle until pastelike. Add tomato paste; mash until blended. Transfer mixture into bowl with beef and rub onto all sides of meat. Add crushed peppercorns and ground pepper. Distribute evenly over all sides of beef. Transfer to a deep skillet or Dutch oven bone side down. Tuck sage leaves, rosemary, and dry bay leaves between pieces of meat. Carefully add wine along the side of the pan to avoid washing over the top of the meat.
• Place pan over high heat and bring to a simmer; reduce heat to low. Cover tightly. Cook until meat is fork tender, turning pieces every 30 minutes or so, about 3 1/2 hours. Transfer pieces of meat to a warm bowl.
• Increase heat to high and bring braising liquid to a boil. Simmer until liquid is reduced by about half or until slightly thickened, 8 to 10 minutes. Remove bones from meat.
• When sauce is thickened, transfer meat back to skillet. Reduce heat to medium-low and spoon sauce over meat. Cook until until heated through, about 5 minutes.